paul-scanlon

Front End Developer / UX Engineer - React / Gatsby - based in Worthing | London / UK.

React, Gatsby, JavaScript, TypeScript/Flow, styled-components, Theme UI, Storybook, TDD (Jest/Enzyme/React Testing Library) and a tiny bit of Apollo/GraphQL, Node and FaunaDB

intro

Well hey there! 👋 I'm Paul and a long long time ago was a designer but after a few years of pixel pushing I realised code is just better! I’ve held various positions in and around advertising and web development in both permanent and contract positions since 2005, and I once co-founded and ran an award winning digital production agency called Super natural based in London.

latest posts

📌Best Bits 2020 ...

2-Sep-2020

5-Aug-2020

Oh hey there! 👋 Here's a bite-size round up of projects I've Open-sourced, posts and articles I've written and contracts I've completed so…

React

Gatsby

Gatsby Cloud

JavaScript

TypeScript

Shopify

styled-components

Theme UI

Storybook

Jest

Enzyme

Testing Library

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Gatsby SEO Component

24-Aug-2020

In this post i'm going to explain how to create an Seo component for use in a Gatsby application or site, I seem to always end up writing…

Gatsby

JavaScript

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styled-components Responsive Array Syntax

19-Aug-2020

In this post I'm going to discuss a new approach I've adopted when using styled-components , initially I wasn't sure what this approach was…

React

JavaScript

styled-components

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styled-components Style Objects

13-Aug-2020

styled-components optionally supports writing CSS as JavaScript objects instead of strings. This is particularly useful when you have…

React

JavaScript

styled-components

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